about
"Everyday a Little Love", a composition by Joao Donato and Norman Gimbel, arranged and played by Vasil Hadžimanov
“Everyday a Little Love” found me, not the other way round. I had basically finalised the list of the songs for this project and was picking my brain for a title to the album, knowing that something was missing, but not knowing what… That’s when I stumbled into this waltz composed by João Donato with lyrics by Norman Gimbel, voicing what I believe in: the hopeful and simple truth that everyday a little love makes each one of us live another day. With this tune I found the missing piece of the puzzle and title of the album!
João Donato is one of the major Brazilian pianists and composers, one of the surviving and still active members of the generation that produced Antonio Carlos Jobim and João Gilberto associated with the birth of bossa nova. Asked how he would describe his own work, Donato says, “It’s my style of music, the way I think about [music]. I don’t even think about it, it’s just the way I do things. I don’t know if it even has a name.” João Gilberto himself often said that he had taken the revolutionary guitar beat while watching Donato play the piano.
Norman Gimbel was an American lyricist. In 1963, Gimbel was introduced to a group of Brazilian composers, and he would go on to write English lyrics for many of their songs, namely the English version of "So Nice" (Summer Samba), "How Insensitive," and “The Girl from Ipanema”. To my knowledge, however, the lyrics of “Everyday a Little Love” were written only in English. A Portuguese version never existed.
lyrics
Everyday, a little love
Everyday, a little care
Everyday, a little touch
Of your hand and mine to share
Everyday, a tender word
That someone in love would say
Everyday, a little love
Helps me live another day
What more would I want
What more could it be
All I ask of you
Ask the same of me
Everyday, a part
Of the love you give
Everyday, my love
Everyday you live
credits
from
Everyday a Little Love,
released November 4, 2022
Composers: João Donato/Norman Gimble
Arranger: Vasil Hadžimanov
Amália Baraona, vocal
Vasil Hadžimanov, piano
Martin Gjakonovski, double bass
Cláudio Infante, drums
Kiril Kuzmanov, saxophone
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